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This exhibition features work by two contemporary printmakers who seamlessly blend deep connections to the history of the medium while pushing its boundaries into the new and experimental.
Reception: January 8, 5-7 pm
Artists and designers today are finding innovative and surprising ways to combine the fields of fashion, environmentalism, ecology, and art. For this exhibition, creatives were invited to submit works that address the issues of sustainability and eco-consciousness in the context of fashion and wearable art. Artwork, garments, and designs could be created from sustainable materials, address sustainability as a practice, challenge our definition of fashion itself, and/or present wearable eco-friendly works.
Deadline for Submission - February 15
This exhibition is open to all artists that are 18 years of age and older. Prints created using traditional, hand-pulled media. Commercial prints, digital prints and photography are not eligible.
Main Line Art Center presents the Professional Artist Members Exhibition, featuring works by a selection of its 2014 Professional Artist Members.
Juried by Sharon Ewing, Director of Gross McCleaf Gallery and Shawn Murray, Owner of Twenty-Two Gallery, the exhibition includes a variety of media and styles.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Friday, January 10 from 6 to 8 pm to mingle with the artists and purchase unique works of art.
Featuring work by Crane Arts Artists:
Kelton Bumgarner, Danielle Bursk, Justin Bursk, Bailey Chick, Dianne Hricko, Richard Hricko, Jennifer Johnson, Nick Kripal, Jude Lang, Kyle Lopinto, Susan Moore, John Roebas, Rebecca Rutstein, Rebecca Saylor Sack, Kristin Schatterfield-Rein, Tim Schwartz, Colleen McCubbin Stephanic, Ian White Williams, and Dganit Zauberman
We're happy to announce that artist TJ Walsh. has launched the portfolio website. Check out his integrated art journal.
TJ received his BFA Graphic Design/Painting, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Happy to have him as one of the tribe.
Opening Reception Sunday, January 5, 2014
Donna Quinn exhibits her latest group of abstract paintings. This recent body of work builds upon her materials-driven process to create layers of paint and mixed media that develop highly textured fields of color etched with organic lines, intuitive marks, and repetitive shapes.
Susan McKee is the proprietor of Old City Flowers in the historic district of Philadelphia where her paintings are continually displayed.
Susan is a contemporary artist working in The Mills Artist Studios in Manayunk and a proud member of The Muse Gallery.
A working artist, Susan shows her work primarily in the tri -state region. Because of the diverse and international audience that frequent Old City - An American Art place" her clients include those in the Philadelphia area, as close as New York and as far as Chile.
Breitfeller and Dennis again offer the viewer a moment to suspend time. Breitfeller continues to delve in to the contemplative with his expansive color fields. His heavily textured oil paintings are a series of short brush strokes applied layer upon layer. Dennis will be showing then, an installation that plays with the intimate scale of the gallery. Chains of inverted, miniature ladders dangle from the ceiling. The wooden ladders are decorated with dashes of color paper. The work is fragile and precarious, playful with a twinge of cynicism
110 CHURCH gallery, on Church Street in Old City, may qualify as Philadelphia's smallest gallery, but it never fails to make the most of its petite white space. Case in point: "Ritual Reading Room, 100 Artists/200 Books," a monumental gathering of artists' books so ingeniously installed that, instead of throwing your hands up at the sheer volume of work, you can't help but be drawn to all of these minuscule books arranged on the walls and narrow tables in tidy grids.
In my paintings and works on paper, elements of nature are magnified, overlapped and obscured, reflecting the continual growth and change, which is the touchstone of the natural world. By altering the scale of the forms and elements, the work suggests shared origins: cellular structures, earth and landscape formations.
110 CHURCH gallery invites you to retreat from the cold into our gallery, transformed into a reading room. Be surrounded by stories, engulfed by pages, dazzled by over two hundred books. Books on shelves. Books on tables. Books hanging. Walls covered with books on display. Take books down, curl up and read. Fall in love with a book, buy it, and take it home.